Iron Skillet - McCalla

Ok so the actual place is nothing to write home about but it's clean. But, the pancakes are perfect! We live nearby and go on Saturday mornings for pancakes. If you get the pancake breakfast you get 5 big pancakes. My husband orders pancakes, eggs and bacon and I get a side order of turkey sausage. His bacon is always crispy and eggs are scrambled. We share the pancakes... I get two he has three and they are on point! Can't speak for the rest of the menu, but I definitely definitely definitely recommend the pancakes!

#21/2023 Well it's been quite a while I think during covid was the last time I think I reviewed here. Like any other iron skillet it follows the same kind of things there's no changes at all. Only thing that changes are pretty much the hours vary locations still due to staffing. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt it's really three and a half stars but for the service they have in the cleanliness they're doing pretty good job keeping things pretty good. I decided to be adventurous and try one of their new smash burgers tonight. I went with the bleu cheese one minus pickled onions. This is the new craze everybody's jumping on the smashburger bandwagon in the Petro iron skillet and I think ta county pride are kind of trying to join the crowd. Personally I'm not a big fan. Impressed at all pressing the burger with a spatula on the grill okay let's put everybody seems to do now it's the new in thing smash burgers. Me I like a big old thick juicy burger I think better. Now I'm not saying it didn't taste like crap or anything it was fine but it just wasn't for me. I probably won't go to a smashburger location because if this is what it is not what I want. But I will say I have an eating smash burgers before they coined the term for years I've been going to steak and shake since back in late teens. So yes they are the original smash burgers before the term was coined they take the steak Patty they smash them on the grill. After something about steak and shake that I just like these were just I don't know I mean if I was starving yeah I need them but they're not something I would say oh I can't wait to go hit the iron skillet or country pride and get me a smashburger. Hey to each their own

Years ago I was in field service and traveled through here several times a week. I would eat lunch here at least once a week and they had the worlds best King of the Road country/chicken-fried steak, real mashed potatoes, and homemade white gravy in any restaurant I 'd ever eaten at. Then I moved away. I last ate here about 5 years ago and it was still tops then but now?! Someone has done away with everything local about the place and they 're whole menu has been tossed in favor of healthy eating . And what they called chicken-fried steak and gravy came straight out of a freezer. The homemade mashed potatoes have been replaced by some sort of mass market hash browns that make those served at Waffle House look like haute cuisine. MY Iron Skillet is gone and I will not be back.

The food was good The service was great It's a restaurant in a gas station it was kid friendly I had 4 kids with me and there was something they all liked

Enjoyed Sunday breakfast here. Service was nice. Food was good. A little pricey but large portions.